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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

Originally Posted by Acora

I never noticed that in 203, when the OotS is claiming to be completely innocent, both Haley and V seem to be freaking out a bit, while Belkar is perfectly fine. Didn't know the little bugger had such a good Bluff skill. I also never noticed V's line: "Yes. None of us have even tampered with the fundamental natural order when bored. That would be wrong."

It's probably also that Belkar sincerely doesn't believe he's doing anything wrong. This is also shown in OOPC, and stated in DSTP.

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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

Vaarsuvius is going to die!

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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

Originally Posted by Kurald Galain

Yes, of course. The thing is that you're retroactively assuming that it did, which is the joke. A bit meta, isn't it?

I can see what you mean, but I don't think that's right. In the first case, Elan specifically invokes the idea of retroactive assumption, whereas in the latter, he simply states that the training had taken place. There's a difference between a character explicitly trying to "game the system" versus just stating something to have happened off-panel.

Given the whole fight and reconciliation after the "Elanicalicus" incident, the best explanation is that Elan is simply telling the truth, and Vaarsuvius has been training him magically despite Elan not actually multiclassing to wizard. That's not really an assumption, that's just believing what a character says (and noting its consistency with other evidence).

Re: Things you never noticed II

Originally Posted by Ron Miel

Okay, it makes sense that they are colours on the cave wall, I'll grant you that point. Even so, there's no reason why the colours would run uphill. They would still run horizontally in the background even when the ground slopes.

In #524 there are people on 2 levels of the cave, there's probably a slope to get from the lower to the higher. The bands of colour in the cave would still run horizontally behind the slope, right?

How does that work? If something is running along the floor, does it disappear when the floor starts to slope up?

Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

OK so I just noticed that Elan has his sash resting over his right shoulder and Nale has his on the left; furthermore, when Nale does his switch-places plot in Cliffport and exchanges clothes with Elan, even though he put on Elan's sash, Nale was still wearing it over the left shoulder... and had clothed Elan with Nale's sash over the right shoulder.

However, come strip #378, Nale-as-Elan is wearing the sash over the right shoulder, which (in that strip and immediate follow-ups) was the last time we saw Nale in a sash - seems to either be an error/oversight or an indication that Nale realized he should use the other shoulder to get the disguise correct, at some point.

The next appearance of a sash is #742 (sashless all that time!) where Elan is wearing a sash in his usual style, and this time Tarquin is also in a sash... over the left shoulder, Nale-style.

Not sure if this has any significance or if I'm reading too much into it.

Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

Originally Posted by Prowl

OK so I just noticed that Elan has his sash resting over his right shoulder and Nale has his on the left; furthermore, when Nale does his switch-places plot in Cliffport and exchanges clothes with Elan, even though he put on Elan's sash, Nale was still wearing it over the left shoulder... and had clothed Elan with Nale's sash over the right shoulder.

However, come strip #378, Nale-as-Elan is wearing the sash over the right shoulder, which (in that strip and immediate follow-ups) was the last time we saw Nale in a sash - seems to either be an error/oversight or an indication that Nale realized he should use the other shoulder to get the disguise correct, at some point.

The reason for the change is the second-to-last panel here. V tells Nale-as-Elan that his sash is on backwards.

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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

Not sure if this was said before, but I've never noticed that Rich foreshadowed Tarquin(Spelling?) in strip 236, by Haley. Who's father is being held by him.

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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

From that same strip (770), I just noticed another line from Ian: "smart people aren't cut out to be gladiators."

Ian and Thog apparently understood this better than Roy...

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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

This is something I noticed when I first read the strip, but I'm pretty sure no one else did.

Tarquin's drink throughout 763 gets empties as he takes sips from it. I believe panels 19 and 20 are goofed: the drink is at the same level as it was when Tarquin took his second sip, then the glass suddenly empties a bit in panel 21.

Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

Originally Posted by Alagaesian

This is something I noticed when I first read the strip, but I'm pretty sure no one else did.

Tarquin's drink throughout 763 gets empties as he takes sips from it. I believe panels 19 and 20 are goofed: the drink is at the same level as it was when Tarquin took his second sip, then the glass suddenly empties a bit in panel 21.

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Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

In the last panel of 728 you can see Roy wearing Haley's bow, which she lost in 713. It's knocked off of Roy's back in 729 and it's on the floor in 732. She has it back in 750, though she doesn't use it. Presumably Durkon picked it up at some point and returned it to her.
Also, 750 has an appearance of Haley's sap, which others have chronicled the history of.

And the entire Gladiator subplot has the same background characters running through it. Evisceratus, for example, actually had several lines and a slight personality.

Re: Things you never noticed II: I never noticed the first thread

Originally Posted by Elvenwonder

In the last panel of 728 you can see Roy wearing Haley's bow, which she lost in 713. It's knocked off of Roy's back in 729 and it's on the floor in 732. She has it back in 750, though she doesn't use it. Presumably Durkon picked it up at some point and returned it to her.
Also, 750 has an appearance of Haley's sap, which others have chronicled the history of.

And the entire Gladiator subplot has the same background characters running through it. Evisceratus, for example, actually had several lines and a slight personality.